Grootbos Private Nature Reserve
Grootbos is "A luxury eco-reserve close to the Southern tip of Africa tucked between mountains, forest and the sea." In the 2500 ha of fynbos, Grootbos boasts 800 plant species, 100 endangered species and 6 species discovered within the reserve.
It is a five star lodge and the only private reserve in South Africa to have produced its own comprehensive photographic field guide of plant species. It is at the cutting edge of research and is to be commended on its conservation and scientific initiatives.
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Drimia media
Athanasia quinquedentata
Holothrix schlechteriana
Colpoon speciosum
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Taxonomy term
Erica lineata
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From the Latin lineatus = 'lined'
Erica parviflora
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From the Latin parvus = ‘small’ and flora = ‘flower’.
Erica pulchella
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From the Latin pulchellus meaning ‘beautiful’
Euclea racemosa
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From the Latin ‘racemosa’ / ‘racemosus’ meaning ‘clustered’
Eulophia aculeata
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From the Latin ‘aculeata’ / ‘aculeatus’ meaning ‘prickly’
Rhizomatous geophyte to 25 cm. Leaves partly or fully developed at flowering, linear-lanceolate, pleated. Flowers few to many in a dense raceme, dull ivory to white, tepals scarcely spreading, median sepal oblong, 6--16 mm long, lip crests of ridges and lamellate papillae, spur absent. Nov.--Jan. Fynbos and grassland, SW, AP, LB, SE (Cape Peninsula to Mpumalanga).
Euphorbia erythrina
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Felicia aethiopica
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From the Latin aethiopicus = 'Ethiopia'; pertaining frequently to Africa in general, not just Ethiopia.
Felicia amoena
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From the Latin amoenus = ‘pleasing / pleasant’
Felicia tenella
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From the Latin tenellus meaning ‘somewhat tender’
Ferraria crispa
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From the Latin ‘crispa’ / ‘crispus’ meaning ‘curled’ or 'finely wavy'
Geranium incanum
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From the Latin incanus = 'grey'
Gomphocarpus fruticosus
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From the Latin fruticosus = ‘bushy’
Helichrysum cymosum
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From the Latin cymosus = 'cymose' - an arrangement of flowers in a cyme which is an inflorescence in which the primary axis bears a single terminal flower which develops first, the inflorescence being continued by secondary, tertiary, and other axes
Helichrysum foetidum
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Latin, from Greek helikhrusos, from helix ‘spiral’ + khrusos ‘gold’. It originally denoted a yellow-flowered plant, possibly Helichrysum stoechas .
Heliophila juncea
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From the Latin junceus = ‘resembling a reed’